Umbrella-cover.



(No Model.)

T. HDFBICHTER.

UMBRELLA COVER (Application filed Kay 20, 1898.)

Patented July 4, I899.

UNITED STATES PATENT 1 OFFICE.

THEODOR IIOFRIOHTER, OF TETSOHEN, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

UMBRELLA-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,006, dated July 4, 1899. Application filed May 2i), 1898. Serial No. 681,222. (No model.)

a parasol, or vice versa, and that it can have the coverchanged to harmonize with the color of a ladys costume, thereby avoiding an expensive outlayfor umbrellas and parasols.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows the umbrella-frame. Fig. 2 is an inside view of the cover. Fig. 3 is a front View. of one of the ribs of the frame. Fig. 4 is an edge View of the same. Fig. 5 is an outside view of the cover. Fig. 6 shows the separable fastening open. Fig. 7 shows the fastening closed.

The frame of the umbrella does not differ from those used hitherto except that the ribs are provided at or near their ends and at other suitable points with eyes b b. The cover 0 is provided on its inner side with buttons f f, corresponding in position to the eyes in the ribs and preferably similar to those used on gloves, having compressible spring portions adapted to enter and engage with the eyes. To the center of the cover is attached a sleeve 9, having a slot 11. The stick it of the umbrella has a spring-catch k in its upper end.

other fastening devices, butrctains the usual appearance of an umbrella-cover. This absence of anything on the outside to render the umbrella conspicuous is a decided advantage from a commercial point of view.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an umbrella, the combination with a stick having a catch in its upper end, of ribs each having eyes formed therein, a cover, a sleeve permanently secured to the center of the cover and adapted to slip over the end of the stick and be removably held by the catch, and spring-fastenings permanently secured to and projecting inwardly from the inside of the cover and adapted to engage separably with the eyes in the'ribs, substantially as dea scribed.

Signed byme this 28th day ofMarch, 1898.

HUGO DONZELMANN', ADOLPH FISCHER. 

